An in planta, Agrobacterium-mediated transient gene expression method for inducing gene silencing in rice (Oryza sativa L.) leaves

Rice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Andrieu, Aurélie ^a   Breitler, Jean Christophe ^a   Siré, Christelle ^a   Meynard, Donaldo ^a   Gantet, Pascal ^b   Guiderdoni, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UMR AGAP   (France)

^b University of Montpellier 2   (France)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Cross silencing; Gene silencing; Leaf agroinfection; OsPDS; OsSRL1; Rice; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871255375     PISSN: 19398425     EISSN: 19398433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1939-8433-5-23     Document Type: Article

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